WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT 56 LEONARD
Was there no indication in the 56 Leonard renderings that we’d end up with a building where the middle 85 percent is pretty unremarkable and far more appropriate for downtown Miami?

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FIRST IMPRESSIONS: BEAUBOURG
Perigourdine sauce, cumin gressin, ratte potatoes, brunoise printanière…. That sort of talk can be a real turn-on, if you can deliver on it. First impressions of Beaubourg, the French restaurant inside Le District.

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HOMBOM TOYS HAS CLOSED
An owner of the Greenwich Street toy store says the neighborhood just didn’t support it enough.

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SEEN & HEARD
••• 5/18: Cortlandt Alley development (above). Plus: A peek inside Parm; Grand Banks souvenirs; Grandaisy Bakery marmalade; Taste of Tribeca stalwarts; the Malt House on Maiden Lane.
••• 5/19: New Leonard Street building unveiled. Plus: Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge with Bill Murray; single-family mansion for rent; the Beekman tower’s X-braces; candle holders to decorate at Da Claudio; trees planted at Liberty Park.
••• 5/20: Moving date for Steven Alan Home Shop. Plus: Glimpses of 11 N. Moore and 319 Broadway; Trinity Wall Street wants kids’ input on its tower; deli closed by Health Dept.; more northwest Tribeca development?; Lafayette storefront; Marvel TV shoot; quilt exhibit; MFA thesis show.

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HALLELUJAH!
The Chambers Street reconstruction project is finally ending.

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IN THE NEWS
••• 5/19: Spotted Pig restaurateurs are taking over the top of a FiDi tower (above). Plus: Timeline for Liberty Park, St. Nicholas church, and the remaining 9/11 Memorial corner; Nike’s not-for-you fitness studio; Drybar confirms Battery Park City salon; drunk couple drops toddler.
••• 5/20: Woolworth Building condo floor plans and prices. (A one-bedroom for $4,575,000?!) Plus: City backtracks on its secret demolition plan for historic Seaport buildings; man pulled from river off Pier 26; Fleet Week started today; theft at Patron of the New; review of City Hall restaurant concert.

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LOFT PEEPING: FAMILY-FRIENDLY THREE-BEDROOM
New York Spaces featured a three-bedroom Tribeca loft that’s “child-proof-by-day, elegant-for-evening.” Hello, tiger!

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